{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Fourth Way","title":"(284)S11E9/7: Augustine \"On Lying\"","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3258,"description":"I explore Augustine's case against lying. \n\nA huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music!\nThanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/\nDiscord Discussion Board: https://disboard.org/server/474580298630430751 \nFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ \nThe Historic Faith Courses: https://thehistoricfaith.com/\nSpotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864\n\nAgainst Lying: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1313.htm\nOn Lying: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1312.htm\nPrevious episode on lying: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/consequentialism-the-moral-conundrum-of-lying-to-save-lives\n\nQuotes:\n1: Of lies are many sorts, which indeed all, universally, we ought to\nhate. For there is no lie that is not contrary to truth. For, as light\nand darkness, piety and impiety, justice and iniquity, sin and\nright-doing, health and weakness, life and death, so are truth and a\nlie contrary the one to the other. Whence by how much we love the\nformer, by so much ought we to hate the latter. Yet in truth there be\nsome lies which to believe does no harm: although even by such sort of\nlie to wish to deceive, is hurtful to him that tells it, not to him\nthat believes it.\n2: Some man will say, So then any thief whatever is to be accounted\nequal with that thief who steals with will of mercy? Who would say\nthis? But of these two it does not follow that any is good, because\none is worse. He is worse who steals through coveting, than he who\nsteals through pity: but if all theft be sin, from all theft we must\nabstain. For who can say that people may sin, even though one sin be\ndamnable, another venial? But now we are asking, if a man shall do\nthis or that, who will not sin or will sin? Not, who will sin more\nheavily or...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JGkV-vDM_2fB5-17TQ9iEONJxTXbDMwB1A42S8-5Pm0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM0ODIvMTU2NjEy/NDE3OS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}